It's not really a crisis.
Hi, just to let you know, I live in New Cross Gate, London, which is 1/4 mile east of Peckham, 1/4 west of Deptford and 1/2 mile north of Lewisham, all of which had riots, burning buildings and cars tonight.
Despite the 24hr News Channels visions of apocolype it's not nearly as bad as it looked on TV. There are relatively small numbers involved and most of the extra riots (other than in Tottenham) are being used just as opportunites to loot.
It is a little quiet about as people stay in just in case, and a lot of traffic on the normally really busy main road has been diverted to other areas, some shops usually open are eiither closed or started using the night windows with the shutters down from early afternoon.
For sure it's criminal acts the rioting and shouldn't be happening, but also don't let the news let you think it's worse than it is, I was at the Poll Tax demo in 1990, now that was a
real riot.....
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=FRj2K0ulD8Q